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Obamacare is not causing most companies to cut hours. Companies themselves are choosing to take strategies to maximize corporate profit, which includes not providing adequate health coverage for their workers, which leads to cutting hours. This is why we need health insurance to be independent of employers. Would you tolerate this bull over your car insurance? And how much more important is your health than a car?

by Anonymous 4
on Sep. 30, 2013 at 8:20 PM

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Many companies have been hiring part time for years so they didn't have to offer benefits. This has been going on long before Obamacare. They just have a scapegoat to blame it on now.

by Anonymous 3
on Sep. 30, 2013 at 8:20 PM

Companies won't have to pay for insurance for anyone working under 30 hours a week, so that is why a lot of cuts are coming and more people will have to work two part time jobs instead of one full time job.

Quoting Anonymous:

if they have to cover all employees how would their hours change. Would it make any difference if they work 1 hour a week?

Shhhh. No one wants to hear that companies want to make bigger profits at the expense of middle income workers.

Quoting bazjack:

Obamacare is not causing most companies to cut hours. Companies themselves are choosing to take strategies to maximize corporate profit, which includes not providing adequate health coverage for their workers, which leads to cutting hours. This is why we need health insurance to be independent of employers. Would you tolerate this bull over your car insurance? And how much more important is your health than a car?

Companies have been cutting hours steadily for nearly 30 years. The Federal Labor Bureau has changed what qualifies as full time over those years as well. We've gone from 40 hours to 35, to 32. The ACA is just the latest justification for hour reduction. But I'm sure someone will find some way to blame the ACA for this steady decline in hours for hourly employees.

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